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From: AGottinger@... (Achim Gottinger)
Subject: Re: boot partition size recommendation
Date: Tue May 1 12:14:01 2001
Justus Pendleton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:52:48AM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
> > Adjust as you see fit.
> 
> Oh I agree completely.  It just seems like the people who DO need
> recommendations on partition sizes aren't likely to have 100 MB of old
> kernels sitting on their boot parition.  And the people who ARE likely
> to have 100 MB of old kernels (although I can't imagine why you'd want
> to do that :-) will pretty much ignore your advice anyway ;-).
> 
Well initrd's can become very large ~8MB if you need them 100MB are not
too much, nut I think this is an
exception recommending 20-100 MB should be ok.

bye achim

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